aaron schwartz points the finger at. u.s. prosecutors driving their son to suicide. high hopes in paris for a swift military campaign in mali with american british. all amid criticism of french realism. and belfast is on edge flag related riots majority rally for. loyalist protests we go and explore the all sides.

thank you so much for joining us here and i'm sure with worldwide news from moscow . the family of web information aaron schwartz says that he may have been driven to suicide by the ferocious prosecution process against him aged just twenty six the internet crusader facing decades in jail for downloading millions of academic papers that he should be believed should be made available to everybody in the public because on his marina reports the federal prosecution. he was a computer prodigy an online activists co-founder of the social news website reddit and he was also a frequent guest on our team but twenty six year old aaron swartz was also the

target of a federal computer hacking case and the trial was scheduled to begin next month that beginning will never come because swartz committed suicide inside his seventh floor brooklyn apartment in this building behind me on friday morning according to police he hanged himself and left no no behind and according to reports his girlfriend found him in the bedroom with a belt wrapped around his neck now swartz was arrested and indicted two years ago on allegations of breaching a computer network at the massachusetts institute of technology to download millions of pages of academic articles and other documents swartz pled not guilty to the charges which carried a sentence of up to thirty five years in prison and a one million dollar fine in the aftermath of the suicide swartz's family released a statement blaming the prosecution the federal prosecution for driving the twenty

six year old to take his own life they said in part quote aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy it is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach decisions made by officials in the massachusetts u.s. attorney's office and at mit contributed to his death unquote many of swartz's colleagues have been quoted remembering him as a genius kid brilliant and funny now at thirty two years old he designed his first web site at the age of fourteen he helped write the ora says program that alerts users to new blog posts swartz also founded demand progress an internet group that campaigns against web censorship in this. ultimately led to many people considering him something of an on line robin hood but his supporters his friends his family members believe that it was him being targeted by the federal government that

caused this brilliant twenty six year old to take his own life reporting from new york. triggered an outpouring of support for his work and tributes to him came in from all corners of the web i want german m.p. from the pirate party fabio reinhardt he says the punishment short was facing was just simply too harsh. it is completely ridiculous people are being charged. for just are not into music from the internet. putting it on the internet that should have been on the internet. a long time ago and actually j.-star. the where the pirates came from said they wanted to put the parts on the internet anyway and. good job doing it this is from the uk this case whenever it comes to comes to copyright and. then. other people in the house of representatives in the united states the same side there is no differences there same side as hollywood

does and sometimes it's just that they're completely innocent people have to pay a lot of. because they are making information public because they are just downloading for music. thanks for joining us here on r t still ahead of you in the program thousands of kilometers of underground tunnels leave the pentagon in a cold sweat. for itself the right to a preemptive nuclear strike china network believe the whole beijing. plus sparks fly when germany's economy minister meets with the popular greek opposition leader who's standing against more budget cuts later we speak to a political economist about what's likely to come out of the discussion. for now though britain has sent one of its cargo warplanes to mali to back the french led military campaign against islamist rebels there london says that more help is

to follow with washington also pledging its own assistance to the french military has been involved in combat action in the west african nation since friday in trouble which some see as blowback from the allies recent interventions in the region and more now from artie's polyploid. well britain the u.s. are reportedly providing help with transport and communications and logistics to that means that they're providing transport and planes to help carry troops however we've also heard the u.s. is providing surveillance drones in order to track the movements of the rebels in northern mali and of course it's not just britain and the u.s. now we've heard that a number of other european countries including denmark pledging their support for the french military offensive in the region so it is growing quite quickly and by sunday we've already had hundreds of french military personnel taking part in operation officials say that french as strikes are targeting rebel forces rebel strongholds and logistical points however human rights groups are already counting

a number of civilian casualties with three children dead since friday and of course this is quite a departure from front lawns promise to kind of step away from the very paternalistic ties that fronts used to have with former african colonies in fact through their differences with nicolas sarkozy he's been just as quick to jump into military military intervention in mali as nicolas sarkozy was to jump into a military intervention in libya two years ago so a lot of political experts saying that it could be a way of trying to ratchet up his political polls and his approval ratings because apparently those have been plummeting and is that he was elected as president last year while the north of mali has been under the control of islamic militant groups that have links to al qaida for almost a year now and it's an area the size of france they've imposed a rare law there so a stance simply a response to the mali government's request for help in trying to sort of hold back

these rebel advances of going further into mali but of course many experts are linking this crisis to sort of the libyan legacy of what happened in libya because . the toric people who traditionally came from northern mali they actually made up a large portion of. duffy's army in libya and also the very brisk military intervention that to topple gadhafi many of these toerags actually returned to that native northern mali they took with them a lot of weapons and a lot of gadhafi military also has kind of uncontrollably been flowing into mali now and loss of experts are just saying that this is a real consequence of what happened in libya but it's a political reporting from london while paris says that its combat mission against islamists in mali will not last long but political writer barren land believes that's a high chance the french army will get bogged down i think it's also part of you

know france's traditions its colonial past its great past in. degree in west africa and also in asia and the french are still not forgot that i think that's very much part of it and also of course there's economic interests there and turns out that the largest city anywhere is on the outskirts of paris so the immigrants who live here i think the problem is that it's totally open and the french have given no i probably don't know exactly what they're all good tips are what is there how long is this going to go on you're talking about a country just north of our maui which is twice the size of france how do you track down these rebels these different groups you know these various how do you deal with them with a few hundred troops in a way is. potentially a huge involvement and very long task in the end what they're going to want to be

doing is having to negotiate with these people that's the only way i think it's going to come to an. all right a ten minutes past the hour moscow time failure to investigate and prosecute later this hour crosstalk looks at why some major crimes committed in different parts of the world including africa as simply being swept under the carpet ultimately never making it to the international criminal court. the i.c.t. why there are only this. have been indicted and convicted and where is the. nato allies. either not being indicted or who we already know it is well the fact that someone is acquitted is not an example of the value of impartial justice in fact in many ways is an example of the success of impartial justice because what that indicates is simply that the prosecutor fail to make his or her case beyond a reasonable doubt at the i.c.c.

we have already seen the same thing happening where gaddafi was indicted arrest warrants issued there's been no investigation into the crimes committed by gaddafi adversary there's been no investigation into the murder in captivity of gaddafi and there's been no investigation of the war crimes committed by nato. if they were if across all carlota their day here on. belfast is in a state of shaky calm after the self silent majority rallied against the violent riots of the past weeks rest began when the catholic dominated local council limited the flying of the u.k. flag on civic buildings. but basically sparking fears protest by british

protestants as r.t. sarah first reports unclear goals on both sides could easily trigger yet more trouble. well it's certainly been a turbulent time for northern ireland it's been six weeks now since the decision was taken to limit the number of days of the flight city hall sparking. out on to the streets the weekend today we saw some of the worst thing that has taken place. we have more than twenty nine police officers that were injured at the weekend in the damage that this is doing. much much further reaching. in this area. talking to people from all sides of the debate to find out what exactly. the riot sparked by the like this speech showing no signs of abating at the weekend

lewis returning from the protest that won't pass the nationalist area both sides clashing police thing came under attack from loyalists. many in the nationalist community. angry young loyalists of pulling back an old sectarian narrative a worrying sign to remember the reality of past troubles. young people why are they coming out and reacting in this way.

willing to accept. and you have as in the rice a roll of the sea what's happening right now is damaging northern ireland's image around the world can be done to stop this happening right now what would these people respond some politicians need if the people on the street. when do you think this is going to start i don't think it's going to stop. but after the still some calm in the form of a peace rally held on sunday and here have watched on in bewilderment some in what's been taking place they've been dubbed the embarrassed all silent majority hugo's all beings of the sort of embarrassed majority rule silent majority who do is that represents to turn to the thing that is quite embarrassing here but national news in other countries you see in these protests with us you see this

you know think of belfast we think oh yes we'll have those mortars in the rasmussen . shuffle of good things happening that's for. sure. the race is now on to come up with a solution to calm the situation before it gets any more and every riot every rock throwing chipping away at the heart full for peace. artsy fartsy. are now back with more news in just a moment. morning news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are old today.

worldwide news live from moscow this is r t with me rule received the right to a preemptive nuclear strike against china is now part of u.s. law that's thanks to the national defense authorization act the pentagon's also ordered a thorough review of when and how the u.s. could strike at the network of tunnels believed to hold beijing's atomic arsenals we'd better get into this right now james corbett joins us live on the program. based news website of the call but a pleasure to see you thanks for coming on so quickly the u.s. government is operating on the assumption that there are three thousand miles worth of tunnels crisscrossing china allegedly containing three thousand nuclear warheads do you believe it. well i'm not even sure that the u.s. government really believes that this is really on the back of a study that was commissioned out of georgetown university last year were two years ago now that found that in this network of tunnels that we do know exist and we can

see from out of satellite telemetry we do know that the these tunnels exist and it's just sheer speculation about what exists within them at this point u.s. intelligence estimates puts the chinese nuclear arsenal something like three hundred but this this study out of georgetown in two thousand and eleven estimated that it could what house as many as three thousand nuclear warheads so basically as part of the n b a twenty thirteen they're basically saying that now they're strapped on is going to have to commission reports to identify the have potential problems involved in this and whether or not they'll be able to to actually confront this with conventional or even nuclear forces in the event that they actually need to get in there certainly saying it how exactly how big are these tunnels how many warheads are in this title the previous report said three hundred not three thousand that we've got up most of america's but mystic submarine fleet operating in the pacific we've also got more u.s. ships moving in that area the pentagon all the while promising to contain china now

planning for what they say a possible nuclear strike that's not exactly going to help already strained relations as it. it really isn't i don't think that we have to look at this content bridgeport in the context of they're going to move in with a nuclear strike right at this this point but i think it has to be seen as a wider part of the u.s. nuclear policy that's been stretching out for decades now trying to come up with ways to justify the existence of some of the u.s. is the existing nuclear arsenal and looking for ways to create new weapons so for example we have to be sixty one dash eleven nuclear bunker busters that live within four hundred kill entire meal that they've been harboring and talking about for in the better part of a decade now in relation to iran and trying to bust through into iran's new underground nuclear facilities or alleged nuclear facilities now they're just shifting that rhetoric over to the asia pacific as part of this age of pacific pivot i think to a certain extent this is just to justify the existence of the u.s.

arsenal in to make sure that things like the new start the strategic arms reduction treaty basically get scuttled before it really gets off the ground and there's a lot in this new and a that really seeks to undermine the president's ability should he ever want to to actually reduce the nuclear stockpile so i think the congress is definitely trying to get their foot in the door and start any type of arms reductions before it can actually be implemented suddenly somebody say that the american president is powerless when it comes to going head to head with the military industrial complex certainly at this point though we've been getting reports that there are some broad acuity a high altitude jet for race between china and japan some japanese jets tailing chinese jets basically playing some high altitude games of cat and mouse possibly reigniting another territorial dispute they've been having disputes for quite some time now certainly about some particular islands is it possible that those two could get involved in something slightly more intense. it certainly could and of course the more bellicose that the u.s. becomes against china the more safe japan will seem will feel in either threatening

responding to chinese aggression so i think it really only servicers to put a match next to this this powder keg that is the asia pacific region especially now that really this is heating up and the american attention is turning here i think we're going to see more and more of this type of these types of situations coming along that could justify even further military intervention so we have to look at these types of nuclear. that's coming out right now not necessarily is the intent to strike anytime soon but certainly it's something to keep our eyes on as this rhetoric continues to ratchet up where as you well know mystical bit of the u.s. has been increasing its military presence on the edges a region for quite some time now certainly over the past two years increasing it in somewhat cold fairly drastic measures now report of them examining possibly three thousand miles loaded with nuclear warheads crisscrossing china i'm sure starting at the very least conspiracy theorists are going to a field day with this such as corbett editor of

a japan based on news website the colbert report thank you for coming on today and you're welcome. well that prioritizing military might over that of social stability coming up with israel launching national drills on president in size and cost people in the street say the government should think again about its money management. but it's going to be a battle over austerity when germany's finance minister meets the greek opposition leader been holding firm against the bird and back program of cuts to press is aiming to change wolfgang schauble zz mind about forcing the greek government to make major sacrifices a political economist again a spot of fuck it says that the country's future looks bleak if things continue as they are. mr to press strong point is that austerity is not working there is no end in sight and what concerns the debt crisis and we are facing much

more years of increased dead and bailout package this debt restructuring have not been successful in the core of the problem and moreover austerity has brought us lost in the devastation recession. extreme unemployment all kinds of social problems this weak point of mr to press in my opinion is that the position of his party is no to us directly but yes to the euro zone as long as it has these this was in favor of the euro the euro zone at all costs that these were european powers as they said in germany. and you are some greeks are choosing a pretty straightforward ways of showing they are fed up with the government a man opens fire on the headquarters of the greek party with an a k forty seven and no group has claimed responsibility but the shooting comes off the back of

a wave of similar attacks by and i hear a lot more on that for you at r.t. dot com. also online as well the virus invades in new york the state governor has declared a health emergency over the spread of flu at this year's epidemic is already five times the size of last year's. height for now though israel has come in for international criticism after its paramilitary forces shut down a palestinian protest camp in the west bank and despite the country's supreme court forbidding it had been a minute netanyahu also promised to build even more settlements in the area one of the protesters told us the prime minister is simply trying to score points just ahead of an election. when you have five hundred more than five hundred fully armed israeli soldiers. raiding villages with said before this is an armed there's a sense that by itself is violent but even within the process of actually.

many activists many of those that suffered brutal beatings for no reason they did not even resist. or less but they suffered due to the beatings we had at least six or seven of those residents were activists treated in the hospital and a lot of them are hostile to see doctors for severe problems that they suffered from the beatings it's a political issue for the. the going ahead with the summit plan. to connect violent means that want to do so and they don't want anything with the legal or illegal to disturb the settlement expansion. and there's a lectures are coming up senator now has to take a tough tough stand. because

i saw in the last two years of the cleavage between poor and rich weak or the big elephant in the room is the defense budget israeli military spending was not supposed to grow more than one and a half percent a year but those figures have more than doubled in the last three years alone and

now after an eight day war with hamas in gaza the defense establishment is pushing for even more money netanyahu chances of a victory come january are high and tell of its homeless are preparing themselves for more of the same shows a pitch. with nothing more than the clothes on his back and a tank of gasoline threatening to set himself on fire i mean what i want what is owed to me by the state nothing more nothing less i sold my country as a soldier and i will stay here to the end i do not fear death i saw it in the army many times but is this what i deserve. his tears echo the pain and abandonment people here feel. the government has no time for us there is money there is a lot of money to help people like us netanyahu couldn't care less he will win again i know this will be the same it's a disgrace prime minister netanyahu has formed committees to deal with the demands

of anti austerity protesters but they complain he hasn't taken a single concrete step to address the concerns of the most i think we need to invest more in social issues housing and cost of groceries and keep the security budget in proportion of. security of society it's more important not less important than their security. officer but the voice on the street is drowned out by the rumble of weaponry and tell of obsession in showcasing its military prowess policy r.t. television. starting with anti-government protests in bahrain have reportedly clashed with police at the funeral of an activist and follows a series of demonstrations against the current government the uprising started in early twenty s when the shia majority began his push for greater political freedoms . barricades have been erected in islam a body which is ready for a wave of anti corruption protesters expected today from lahore calling for

electoral reforms accusing the administration of doing little to improve their standard of living some experts are predicting this movement led by a cleric who just returned from canada could spark a broader arab spring style up. and crosstalk.